 |
|
    |
It’s caucus day in Wyoming, which is one of the boxy Rocky Mountain states without a well-known film festival to bring in celebrities and news cameras. If you’ve never heard of it, Wyoming is the real purrty place that lives right below Montana. If you’ve never heard of Montana, it’s the real purrty place that [...]
Read Cowboy caucusing »
Tonight I went to the “super caucus site” at the Boulder, Colorado, public high school, where something like 15 precincts were scheduled to gather and decide which of the Democratic candidates they would support at the Democratic convention in August. Four years ago roughly 200 people turned out to caucus. Tonight authorities presumed that number [...]
Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker rallied Obama supporters today in Boulder, Colorado, speaking first with faculty and students at the University of Colorado campus and then with what was referred to last election as a crowd of “chardonnay-and-brie liberal” townies at the Dairy Art Center.
Taking in the high-end ethnic mix demographic at the Dairy [...]
The message last night in Iowa was a clear: Please let’s change the whole mess up!
Sounding the opening bell on the 2008 elections, caucus-goers voted overwhelmingly for a first-term African-American senator on the left and an anti-BigMoney governor on the right. Key to the victories of both men was the mad increase in participation [...]
Evidence suggests that peer-to-peer voter turnout campaigns work to significantly mobilize young voters. For any of you Iowans who haven’t yet been successfully peer-to-peered, Rock the Vote and its smackdown partner are posting some motivational PSAs and trivia quizzes that are kinda funny. So rock your caucus, people, because caucusing means working for change!
Read Caucus crazy »
It’s caucus day in the snowy farmland that is Iowa. The New York Times put up this explainer video that attempts in a pinched nearly Power-Point way to answer the question: “What the hell is a caucus and how does it actually work?” The short answer is: Folks get in a room, drink coffee and [...]
With less than 24 hours until the Iowa Caucus kicks off the mad dash to White House, which candidates will take the early states and the party nominations is anyone’s guess… even yours.
Whether your personal prediction comes from scrupulously dissecting the most recent polls from Rasmussen or taking a looksie into that crystal ball you [...]
 |
Add Comment 
For gay couples, neither candidate in Thursday’s VP debate offered anything remotely resembling change. Tara Graham takes them to task.
Mark Evitt takes a hard look at the recent Village Voice firings and the state of print media in general.
Ryan Barrett takes you through her own person Spin Room on last week’s Vice-Presidential debate.
In our new series on classic pieces of journalism, Emily Henry pulls Martha Gellhorn’s “Dachau” out of the chest for your reading pleasure.
Deborah Stokol takes Rosie the Riveter back from the campaigning co-opters.
Tara Graham hits you with the week in gossip. Catch up on the brain candy.
Emily Henry takes a look at the new import HBO sketch-comedy series Little Britain USA
Missed your dose of gossip last week? Tara Graham rounds up all of the juicy tidbits. (Spoiler: Clay Aiken is gay)
Confused by the pro-corn syrup commercials you’ve been seeing lately? You’re not alone. Mark Evitt breaks it down for you.
Samantha Page previews the Hullaboo fundraising fest for the Silverlake Conservatory of Music
Chris Nelson weighs in on Obama’s candidacy, the punditry poison, and the speech from Invesco Field.
Max Zimbert interviews some political heavyweights on the Dem’s chances in Ohio and Iowa.
The P+P crew gives a Cribs-style walk-through of their sick DNC digs.
Torey Van Oot gets ex-Fugee Wyclef Jean to share his thoughts on courting the Latino vote for Obama.
Brooke-Sidney Gavins gets RZA of the Wu-Tang to open up about the DNC and the election.
Entries